Citing an unproven assertion from the September Office of Inspector Generals report on Fast and Furious gunwalking, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa issued a statement yesterday on the departure of Eric Holders Chief of Staff, Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler.

 ... Grindler was appropriately faulted by his Departments own Inspector General for keeping information about a connection between the murder of a Border Patrol Agent and a mishandled department operation away from the Attorney General and the Department of Homeland Security, Issa asserted.

We determined that Grindler learned on December 17, 2010, of the link between weapons found at the Terry murder scene and Operation Fast and Furious but did not inform the Attorney General about this information, Issa quoted from the report. (Bear in mind another aide had informed Holder of the Terry murder the night it happened.)

The federal government will still not reveal if one of the two WASR-10 AK-pattern semi-automatic rifles located near the scene  provided to the Sinaloa cartel via Operation Fast and Furious  was the weapon that put a bullet through Brian Terrys heart. The existence of a third recovered gun, an SKS carbine, has been disputed by the FBI despite the fact it had been talked about openly in the beginning of the investigation among federal agents.

Multiple sources tell PJM that this third weapon disappeared because it was the weapon carried by the FBI CI who ran the rip crew. When it was recovered near the scene of the murder and subsequently traced by the ATF, it traced back to the FBI CI via the gun shop in Texas where it was purchased.

Brian Terrys murder was entirely preventable. The incompetence of the DEA and FBI let his Border Patrol unit walk into an ambush. After the ambush, it appears the FBI tampered with evidence to cover up that one of their informants was involved with the murder of a federal agent.

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posted on 12/04/2012 11:06:06 PM PST
by TigersEye
(Who is John Galt?)

"Parrots" is a pejorative, meant to mock Issa as a bird that simply repeats the sounds that it hears. They are trying to marginalize Issa, and by extension, all the Fast and Furious findings by his committee.

-PJ

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posted on 12/04/2012 11:10:16 PM PST
by Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)

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